Problems with localisation and spell checking selections

[Brian Morrison]

On Fri, 21 May 2010 13:38:41 -0400
Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im> wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 13:20, Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 May 2010 16:38:12 +0100
> > Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> This one is definitely not your fault, it's a problem with my work
> >> machine where it simply won't allow access to the web proxy server
> >> unless it's via a browser. Maybe now I can get it fixed as I use
> >> Pidgin for work and I should be able to install it without
> >> hassles :)
> >
> > Right, well our proxy now allows access to the GTK+ zip file and to
> > the debug symbols, however when Pidgin tries to download the spell
> > checker dictionaries it fails because
> >
> > http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/
> 
> The right URL is
> http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/
> 
> On the mirror i'm hitting
> (http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/)
> the dictionaries are present.

Right, well the problem may well be that the mirror it picks is still
blocked by our proxy. I've put in another bug ticket about it, will see
if that helps ;-)

The admin people are rather resistant to just allowing any program to
access the outside world without authentication....

-- 

Brian Morrison